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The registration of Nigeria domain name, .ng, increased by 1,591 from October to November this year.

The .ng domain recorded a two-per cent increase month-on-month from 99,382 to reach 100,973 as of the end of November 2017.

An analysis of data from the Nigeria Internet Registration Association, managers of the country’s domain names system, showed that the number of .ng domain increased by 1,632 from September to October.

The data showed that about 12,248 new domain registrations were recorded in the three months under review, with 6,420 renewals and 198 transfers to other registrars.

The association stated that the new domain registrations for November were higher than the corresponding 2016 registrations, adding that there had been an increase in the number of accredited registrars, domain name registrations and renewals.

“We have crossed the 100,000th mark for the .ng domain name registrations. We have consistently been growing at a rate much higher than 75 per cent year on year. Now, we are on the march towards the 1,000,000th mark; I know we can do this as we aim for this target,” he added.

Meanwhile, a new report by HUB8, a web-hosting company, stated that majority of .ng and .com.ng websites in Nigeria were hosted in the United States, making Nigeria to lose about 72 per cent of the revenue it should be generating through local hosting of such websites.

According to the report on the use of .ng domains as it relates to website hosting, out of the 34,000 sites, less than 1,000 are located in Nigeria, which is only 2.3 per cent of the total.

It stated that the country of origin of the remaining three per cent of sites could not be identified, adding that Nigeria’s share was slightly larger, although not comparable with the amount of hosting abroad.

The HUB8 report identified the most popular domain zone as .com.ng, having almost 70 per cent of all national domains registered, with regards to distribution of the domain zones.

The .ng comes next, largely because it costs several times more than .com.ng while .org.ng, which is usually used by non-profit organisations, ranks third with an age backlog.

The number of zones identified by the study included .com.ng, .ng, .org.ng, .gov.ng and .edu.ng with the number of domains being 61,609 (69.1 per cent); 15,353 (17.2 per cent); 6,077 (6.8 per cent); 1,738 (1.9 per cent and 996 (1.1 per cent), respectively.

Others of such domain zones are .net.ng, .name.ng, .sch.ng, .i.ng, .mobi.ng and .mil.ng, all of which have less than one per cent market share.

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